Several were firing into the barn when Billy Tilghman arrived.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

Tilghman also failed to act decisively on these orders, which in any event were now too late to be adequately carried out.

Killed were Lt. John Connors, Chief Petty Officer Donald McFaul, Torpedoman's Mate 2nd Class Issac Rodriguez, and Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Chris Tilghman.

The Tilghman family owned it for over a century, beginning with Matthew Tilghman in 1752, and they were the last family to own it.

Foremost among Benjamin Chew's law students were Brigade Major Edward Tilghman and Judge William Tilghman.

The original sites for Forts Henry and Donelson were selected by another general, Daniel S. Donelson, but Tilghman was then placed in command and ordered to construct them.

In his highly fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, published in 1931, he wrote that Earp and four other lawmen — ' Bat ' Masterson, Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett and Neal Brown — were presented with a customized revolver with a-long barrel.

Congress rewarded Tench ’ s merits and Washington had high trust in the man, as they were shown painted side by side The National Park Service writes that Tilghman was even sick during his ride from Yorktown to Philadelphia " with chills and fever " and that " Tilghman left the army in 1783 his health was failing " leading to his death " in 1786 his 42nd year.

: As there were few man for whom I had a warmer friendship or greater regard for your brother Colonel Tilghman — when living ; so, with much truth I can assure you that there are whose death I could have more sincerely regretted — And I pray you and his numerous friends to permit me to mingle my sorrows with theirs on this unexpected and melancholy occasion.

Heck Thomas had tracked most of them ; the remainder were tracked down and eliminated by lawmen Chris Madsen and Bill Tilghman, and other posses.

However, neither Tilghman nor Brown were lawmen then.

President Tilghman is a biologist ; her two predecessors were economists.

From Tilghman Street to Lehigh Street, US 309 and PA 29 were designated along 7th Street and the northernmost part of Lehigh Street, sections of the modern PA 145.

`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Mayfield High School has won nine Kentucky High School Athletic Association championships in classes A and AA in a total of 17 appearances, with historical winning competition against larger schools, including arch rival Paducah Tilghman, Franklin-Simpson, Murray and Hopkinsville.

One month later the town of Cromwell was torched, with every brothel, bar, flop house and pool hall having been burned to the ground allegedly by friends of Tilghman.

This marriage ended in the early 1980s, leaving Tilghman with custody of their young daughter ( Rebecca ) and infant son ( Alex ).

Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, also with 4, 000.

Tilghman is remembered as brave and gallant in surrendering with his men, but he was derelict in his duty by abandoning the command of his garrison, which was responsible for the defense of both Henry and Donelson.

* Bill Doolin — captured January 15, 1896, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas by Deputy U. S. Marshal Bill Tilghman ; escaped with Dynamite Dick Clifton ; killed August 24, 1896, in Lawson, Oklahoma Territory, by a posse under Deputy U. S. Marshal Heck Thomas.

The Systems Directorate, headquartered in Washington, D. C. with locations in Chesapeake Beach, Tilghman Island, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, is responsible for performing a range of activities from basic research through engineering development to expand the operational capabilities of the US Navy.

A plat of it appears in an 1877 county atlas, showing eight main streets with the names: Rich Neck Road, Leeds, Ward, Progress, Monument, Tilghman, and Dom Pedro.

About a month later, on June 5, 1786 he writes to Richard Tilghman: ... none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth.

James Dalton ( Patrick Swayze ) is a professional " cooler " ( i. e. specialized doorman, or bouncer ) with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job in New York City by club owner Frank Tilghman ( Kevin Tighe ) to take over security at his club / bar, the Double Deuce, in Jasper, Missouri.

He is credited with befriending the Marquis de Lafayette and recruiting the teenage aristocrat to the American cause ; when Lafayette traveled to America, he carried with him a letter of introduction from Carmichael to George Washington's aide Tench Tilghman, a fellow Marylander from the Eastern Shore.

Ms. Tilghman notes that plants are still stored inside the building in winter, but a frame has been constructed to hold the houseplants, and the whole of the frame is covered with plastic to keep in moisture.

) He later became a deputy US Marshal for five years ( appointed by President Grover Cleveland ), serving with Bill Tilghman.

In early 1896, Doolin was captured in a bathhouse by Bill Tilghman.

However, because of the relentless pursuit of the Three Guardsmen ( lawmen Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, and Heck Thomas ) many of the gang had been either captured or killed by the end of 1894.

`` I'm Billy Tilghman '', said the stranger, `` and I've come for Pat Conyers' body ''.

Tilghman leapt on to him, dragged him upright and hit him again, this time sending him careening against the bar.

Tilghman flung himself aside, dropped on one knee and pulled his own gun.

`` OK, Tilghman, I'm quitting ''.

Tilghman and his partner, George Rust, herded the men into a corner.

Billy Tilghman and his comrades rode off to the battle.

Billy Tilghman did just that.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Of all the rip-roaring two-fisted tough boys of the Old West, `` Uncle Billy Tilghman '' stands out head and shoulders.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

`` Wait here, Neal '', said Tilghman.

Leaving his rifle in the wagon, Tilghman walked up to the door and hammered on it.

`` Hello, Ed '', said Tilghman.

Tilghman closed the door behind him and walked towards the fire.

Thinking fast, Tilghman never hesitated for one instant.

`` Cold day '', said Tilghman, placing his hands behind him and casually presenting his backside to the fire.

He wouldn't look Tilghman in the face.

Resisting the overwhelming temptation to flng himself out of that bristling death-trap, Tilghman deliberately engaged the nervous rancher in trivial conversation for a good ten minutes.

`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.